How has society shaped you to be the person you are today?
You will have to use the following terms:
1. Social structure= any relatively stable pattern of social behavior
2. Beliefs= specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be true
3. looking-glass self= Cooley´s term for self-image based on how we think others see us
4. role= behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
5. out-group= a social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition
6.social control= attempts by society to regulate people´s thoughts and behavior
7. social mobility= a change in position within the social hierarchy
8. gender stratification= the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
9. racism= the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another
10. global stratification= patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole
Each of the terms above are taken from the book= Society the basics sixth Canadian edition authors: John J. Macionis, S. Mikado Jansson, Cecilia M. Benoit and Jakub Burkowicz
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